Rory McIlroy ‘glad I was wrong’ about PGA Tour-LIV Golf truce with rebel league in peril
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“Rory McIlroy on Tuesday, ahead of this week’s PGA Championship at Aronimink, admitted he was “glad’’ to be “wrong’’ about LIV Golf.”
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Multiple independent web search results confirm that Rory McIlroy stated he was 'glad' to be 'wrong' about LIV Golf ahead of the PGA Championship at Aronimink.
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— McIlroy enters the PGA Championship this week at Aronimink Golf Club outside Philadelphia as the second-biggest betting favorite and coming off a win a month ago at the Masters.
https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7272885/2026/05/12/rory-mci…
https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7272885/2026/05/12/rory-mci…
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— Rory McIlroy on Tuesday, ahead of this week's PGA Championship at Aronimink, admitted he was "glad'' to be "wrong'' about LIV Golf.
https://nypost.com/2026/05/12/sports/rory-mcilroy-glad-i-was…
https://nypost.com/2026/05/12/sports/rory-mcilroy-glad-i-was…
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— McIlroy was once in favor of a LIV Golf and PGA Tour merger. As he prepares to begin the PGA Championship, he said he's happy that never materialized.
https://www.si.com/golf/pga-championship/rory-mcilroy-sharp-…
https://www.si.com/golf/pga-championship/rory-mcilroy-sharp-…
“McIlroy... had been an advocate of the PGA Tour making a deal with LIV.”
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Multiple sources confirm McIlroy previously urged the PGA Tour to unite or make a deal with the Saudi-backed PIF/LIV Golf.
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— Rory McIlroy has long advocated for the PGA Tour.Rory McIlroy took a pop at LIV Golf rebels who said they'd rather quit the sport than return to the PGA. | SKY SPORTS. McIlroy's comments come amid maj…
https://www.gbnews.com/sport/golf/rory-mcilroy-liv-golf-pga-…
https://www.gbnews.com/sport/golf/rory-mcilroy-liv-golf-pga-…
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— — Has LIV Golf pushed the PGA Tour to get better?Rumblings of a PGA Tour-PIF “deal in principle” being announced by Trump following the four-hour long session were prevalent, but the meeting produced …
https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6194316/2025/03/11/pga-tour…
https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6194316/2025/03/11/pga-tour…
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— Rory McIlroy has admitted he was wrong last year when he urged the PGA Tour to unite with the Saudi-backed PIF.LIV Golf has six more tournaments scheduled this season. The next one will be played May …
https://www.espn.com/golf/story/_/id/48750170/rory-mcilroy-a…
https://www.espn.com/golf/story/_/id/48750170/rory-mcilroy-a…
“the Saudis are ceasing their funding in the maverick tour at the end of the 2026 season”
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Two independent cross-references from Flipboard report that the Saudi Public Investment Fund is pulling funding from LIV Golf at the end of the 2026 season.
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— Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund is pulling its funding from LIV Golf at the end of the 2026 season.
https://flipboard.com/topic/news/why-saudi-arabia-s-5-billio…
https://flipboard.com/topic/news/why-saudi-arabia-s-5-billio…
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— Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund is pulling its funding from LIV Golf at the end of the 2026 season.
https://flipboard.com/topic/news/why-saudi-arabia-s-5-billio…
https://flipboard.com/topic/news/why-saudi-arabia-s-5-billio…
“McIlroy, fresh off winning his second consecutive Masters in April”
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The claim states McIlroy won his second consecutive Masters in April. However, the provided evidence from the NYPost is clearly hallucinatory or erroneous (mentioning the Raiders and Tom Brady in the same context as the Masters), and the Wikipedia/PGA Tour profiles do not list a second consecutive Masters win for McIlroy. Historically, McIlroy has not won consecutive Masters tournaments.
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— The Official PGA TOUR Profile of Rory McIlroy. PGA TOUR Stats, bio, video, photos, results, and career highlights.
https://www.pgatour.com/player/28237/rory-mcilroy
https://www.pgatour.com/player/28237/rory-mcilroy
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— 3 days ago · Rory McIlroy has seen the quotes from LIV golfers who don't want to return to the PGA Tour. "That says something about you," he says.
https://golf.com/news/rory-mcilroy-liv-golf-pga-tour-return/
https://golf.com/news/rory-mcilroy-liv-golf-pga-tour-return/
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— Rory Daniel McIlroy (born 4 May 1989) is a Northern Irish professional golfer who plays on the PGA Tour and the European Tour. He is a former world number one in the Official World Golf Ranking and ha…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rory_McIlroy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rory_McIlroy
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“Ricky (McCormick), caddies for Tom McKibbin, who’s over there.”
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The web search results for 'Ricky McCormick' returned information about a 2025 film called 'Ricky' and unrelated content; no evidence was found linking a person named Ricky McCormick as a caddie for Tom McKibbin.
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— Newly released after being locked up in his teens, 30-year-old Ricky (Stephan James) navigates the challenging realities of life post-incarceration, and the ...
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=i67VveNzbyQ
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— Ricky is a 2025 American drama film, directed and produced by Rashad Frett, in his directorial debut, from a screenplay by Frett and Lin Que Ayoung. It is an expansion of the 2023 short film of the sa…
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ricky_(2025_film)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ricky_(2025_film)
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— Newly released after being locked up in his teens, 30-year-old Ricky navigates the challenging realities of life post-incarceration, and the complexity of gaining independence for the first time as an…
https://m.imdb.com/title/tt27827635/
https://m.imdb.com/title/tt27827635/
“LIV’s prospects for survival beyond 2026 as its CEO, Scott O’Neil and his team hunt for new investors”
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Five independent cross-references (NYPost, Krdo, Dailydispatch) consistently identify Scott O'Neil as the CEO of LIV Golf.
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— LIV Golf CEO Scott O’Neil had already started informing players and staff Wednesday
https://nypost.com/2026/04/29/sports/liv-golfs-saudi-funding…
https://nypost.com/2026/04/29/sports/liv-golfs-saudi-funding…
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— LIV Golf CEO Scott O’Neil stated that the 2026 season would proceed as planned without disruption.
https://nypost.com/2026/04/16/sports/liv-golfs-mexico-city-s…
https://nypost.com/2026/04/16/sports/liv-golfs-mexico-city-s…
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— Secretary Bourgeois spoke with LIV Golf CEO Scott O’Neil on Friday and was informed that the organization seeks to postpone its June 2026 event in New Orleans
https://krdo.com/news/2026/04/28/liv-golf-moves-to-postpone-…
https://krdo.com/news/2026/04/28/liv-golf-moves-to-postpone-…
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